Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 16:31:29 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 250700] drm-kmod i915kms binary package not working on 12.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <bug-250700-7141-9NCg3ovJyF@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-250700-7141@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250700 Bruce Lilly <bruce.lilly@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bruce.lilly@gmail.com --- Comment #15 from Bruce Lilly <bruce.lilly@gmail.com> --- First, other things are affected: even after rebuilding drm-fbsd12.0-kmod, sddm dumps core and gdm just doesn't work. Rebuilding both (and their many prerequisites) from source appears to work. There are other programss that appear to have problems (e.g. a couple from recent logs): kernel: pid 47952 (mate-terminal), jid 0, uid 1000: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) kernel: pid 51154 (conftest), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) It appears that I'll be dealing with update-related bugs for quite some time. Second, this is an epic failure of release engineering: [as of this writing] neither the Release notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html) nor Hardware notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/hardware.html) mention or even hint at this set of problems. Per contra, the Release notes state "[amd64,i386] Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility." In fact, update from 12.1 via freebsd-update didn't work. `freebsd-update rollback` also didn't work, resulting in "ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: Unsupported relocation type 37 in non-PLT relocations". System was left utterly unusable (couldn't even log in). I then had to install from scratch, and of course installation of 12.2-RELEASE has the same problem with non-working display (even the console is unsatisfactory, because default 800x600 VESA resolution doesn't work well on a 1366x768 laptop display). N.B. without another working OS or device, that would have been a complete disaster: no X essentially means no browser and no practical way to even search for a solution. When it's working, FreeBSD is almost as usable as a desktop OS as a systemd{ebacle,isaster,estroyer}-less Linux distribution (e.g. Devuan). "Almost" because of lack of some things (gparted, for example) and non-POSIX utilities (e.g. ps). But as long as disasters such as the above utter failure of update/rollback/installation exist, I cannot in good conscience recommend FreeBSD to others. So it's also an epic failure on the advocacy front. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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